Converting int to CString

[Cam]

First, a big "thank you" to everyone who has been helping me. I know I've been asking a lot of stupid questions, but once I get this stuff relearned, I think I'll be fine. So, here's the next stupid question. I've got an integer, and and I want it in a CString. For example: //Before int myint = 123; //After CString mystring = "123"; The problem is that when I try to assign it directly, it puts the character with the ASCII value of the int into the string (I think). Anyway, then I looked up itoa in MSDN, and found a solution. But you must pass itoa a character array to store the resulting text in. Anyway, the only way I know to make it work is like this: char cDay[3] = " "; _itoa(theTime.GetDay(), cDay, 10); CString Day = cDay; Anyway, the basic idea is that I changed it from an int to a char array, and then from a char array to a CString. But I'm sure there's a way to leave out the char array and just do it directly. Thanks again. ~Cam Desautels (BinaryUprising.com)

[Joaquin M Lopez Munoz]

The following snippet of code is useful for writing numeric values into std::strings:

#include <sstream>
template <typename T> inline std::string tostring(const T& t)
{
std::ostringstream ostr;
ostr<<t;
return ostr.str();
}

It must be trivial to adapt it for MFC CStrings. Joaquín M López Muñoz Telefónica, Investigación y Desarrollo

[Cam]

Ahh...yes, if I'm going to be doing a lot of conversions like that, a template would be a very good idea. But I don't really understand that code...I don't get what the binary shift does...but isn't there a more direct route? ~Cam Desautels (BinaryUprising.com)

[Alvaro Mendez]

Here's the most direct way, short of writing your own little function to do it:

CString Day;
Day.Format(_T("%d"), theTime.GetDay());

Regards, Alvaro

[Cam]

Ahhh :), thank you. ~Cam Desautels (BinaryUprising.com)